Open Jerusalem: Cornerstone for World Peace - My / Our contribution
Barry Crook
barryc at ci.aspen.co.us
Thu Jul 13 16:00:13 PDT 2006
And I have read that the Israeli border communities are feeling the same
pain from the rain of rockets sent by Hamas and Hezbollah . . . and that
living with the constant threat of homicide bombers is no "walk in the
park" either . . . but I'm not sure how these things we have heard or
read are part of learning about Open Space . . . if I am wrong about the
intent of the listserv I will drop my subscription so as to not intrude
onto your political discussions . . . if I am right about the intent,
then I would ask folks to stick to the purpose of the listserv.
In any case, I too hope that all parties to conflict find the power and
courage to seek peace.
R. Barry Crook
Asst. to the City Mgr. / Business Process Mgr.
City Manager's Office
City of Aspen | 130 S. Galena | Aspen CO 81611
(970) 920-5296
barryc at ci.aspen.co.us
"Telling ain't teaching and listening ain't learning."
-----Original Message-----
From: Funda Oral [mailto:fundaoral at ttnet.net.tr]
Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 6:06 AM
Subject: Re: Open Jerusalem: Cornerstone for World Peace - My / Our
contribution
In the last 2 months, i stopped reading newspapers to protect the health
of
my mind.
But i still follow some summaries.
I am reading that Gazze is like a "hell" Israel is bombing the city.
Israel is giving the electricity only 2 hours.
People don't have food, water and medicine.
I hope we find power and courage to get over....to build
peace...........
Funda
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael M Pannwitz" <mmpanne at boscop.de>
To: <OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2006 5:56 PM
Subject: Open Jerusalem: Cornerstone for World Peace - My / Our
contribution
> Dear Filiz and you others,
> I was involved in it as the facilitator together with Yaari,
Anna,Dominik
> and Vera (essentially the same team we had at the meeting of 200+
Imams
> and Rabbis earlier this year in Sevilla, you can see all of them in
the
> open space world map).
> The conference started Sunday July 2nd and closed on Thursday morning,
> July 6. The open space part began on Monday afternoon and closed on
> Wednesday evening.
> There were 8 breakout sessions (which made it the longest os I ever
> facilitated), 40 issues, 34 reports and 30 action proposals with
concrete
> steps...all in all a normal os-event.
> There were about 20 Israelis and 20 Palestinians and 60+ people from
other
> places interested in Peace in that region.
> People in attendance from the region like Avner Haramati from Israel
and
> Carol Daniel-Kasbari from Palestine could tell you more about what
> happened there and what it means...I just experienced the normal
peaceful
> process of open space with lots of excited people.
> The call for someone to coordinate all of this is both common and at
the
> same time an issue that the person feeling this call can follow
through
> on. In fact, some got together and had a pretty well worked out plan
> including the financing to create an internet platform to do just
that.
>
> One participant summed it up in the Closing Circle (similarly to what
ho
> observed and recorded in "The Practice of Peace" at the gathering in
Rome
> a couple of years ago)with the words:
> "Everyday looking at the reports on television, listening to the
radio,
> reading the newspapers windows to hell open up for me. Here a window
to
> heaven opened."
> The productive, peaceful quality of this event in the face of what
happens
> in the war zones many participants came from is a miracle.
>
> Since there was an agreement not to take pictures and not to produce a
> book of proceedings and not to copy the action proposals participants
now
> will rely on their ingenuity and their selforganized very detailed
contact
> list to continue the work.
>
> Greetings from Berlin getting ready to fire up the barbecue for 3 of
my
> grandchildren visiting ....
> See you in Moscow in 3 weeks
> mmp
>
> Filiz Telek wrote:
>> Apparently there was another "open space" for middle east
peace..anyone
>> was involved in it?
>>
>> Monday, 10 July 2006
>>
>> To all Peace Workers;
>>
>> the conference at the Lasalle-Institute "Jerusalem, City of Peace"
has
>> finished. For three long days about 120 people met, guided and
>> accompanied by the method of "open space" in order to communicate
about
>> visions, possible projects, and new possibilities of cooperation.
>> Considering the urgency of the current situation it is debatable
whether
>> the methods of "open space" can achieve satisfactory result. "Open
space"
>> is able to start the activity and the dialogue among the
participants,
>> but then I was missing the coordinating, co-guiding element, the
person
>> who keeps the overview and participates form there in a guiding way.
For
>> me the extraordinary quality of the conference consisted in the fact
that
>> people gathered who won't meet normally. It belongs to the
consistent
>> method of the representatives of the Lasalle-Institute that they want
to
>> initiate the change on government level as well as on the level of
>> projects which are working at the very basis. A big thanks goes to
Pater
>> Niklaus Brantschen, Anna Gamma and Pia Gyger for their tireless and
>> unconditional commitment for peace in the Middle East.
>> Results of the conference: new contacts were made, architectural
models
>> for Jerusalem as a world city of peace were presented. The film "We
>> Refuse to be Enemies" was presented and found good resonance. Letters
to
>> decisive representatives of governments and religions were worded in
>> order to declare Jerusalem a weapon-free zone. My impression is that
many
>> peace workers do not yet see how much we must change structures and
>> systems and to what extend we are challenged to develop new
functioning
>> models. Would the world evolve as much about peace as it just evolved
>> about football, we were for sure on the winners' side. This is the
focus
>> for which we from the Healing
>> Biotope I participated. With patience and persistence we direct our
>> perseverance and our continual work to this point again and again. In
me
>> it causes the radicalisation to reinforce my commitment for the
>> humanization of money and to set off for my way to motivate business
>> people to invest their
>> money in the development of models for peace villages. With the
amount of
>> money that one tank costs we could do powerful steps of manifestation
in
>> the global peace movement. The developing peace villages would be
>> something like the points of crystallization and energy accelerators
to
>> make one perspective of the peace movement visible. I phrased a new
>> pilgrim-text that I want to send out in the Ring of Power this time.
May
>> it be heard by the relevant forces.
> --
>
>
>
>
> Michael M Pannwitz, boscop eg
> Draisweg 1, 12209 Berlin, Germany
> ++49-30-772 8000
> www.boscop.de www.michaelmpannwitz.de
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